The best developer tools. Chosen by the community.
57 developer tools, chosen by the community. Top of this view: BBEdit — #9 overall. The overall rank spans all apps and changes with every vote. How the ranking works →
Developer tools are editors, terminals, Git clients, API tools, database clients, network analysers — software for people who build software. Expectations differ here, because most people keep their tools for years.
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What counts: start-up time and behaviour on large projects, extensibility, keyboard operation, and a configuration that can be versioned and carried to a new machine. Then the licence question — open source, one-off purchase or subscription — and, for anything that manages credentials, the plain question of where those are stored and whether they leave the device. How well a tool fits into an existing chain counts too: an editor that understands the team's project configuration saves more work than a long feature list. For anything that sends data to a cloud service, read the terms before production use; that now applies in particular to assistant features that upload source code for processing.
The order comes from the community: upvotes minus downvotes, updated continuously. A recommendation here does not replace checking whether a tool fits your own stack.
